VIVENDI’S PROFITS SOAR

News, 03 October 2000

French communications group Vivendi has posted a 67% increase in first-half profits, with a 16% rise in sales.

The 1.4 billion uplift, comparable to the company’s total profits in 1999, was announced as Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier initiated corporate governance reforms in the run-up to the company’s merger with Canadian entertainment firm Seagram.

Messier claimed that Vivendi would become a “European benchmark” in shareholders’ rights.

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